The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.


Deep in the mountains, there is a temple where children with beautiful hair colours have been gathered and have lived together since very young. One day, a newcomer from the outside world joins these children, and he happens to have the rarest colour of them all: jet-black. Unaccustomed to the culture and way of life of the temple-dwellers, how will he fare in this new environment.
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